The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-11-17
L1NGG CHEATS THE HANGMAN.


tor Murray left to day to be present dur
ing the session.
LINGG CHEATS THE HANGMAN.
schwab and FIelden Have Their Sentences
COMMITTED to Life imprisonment.
CHICAGO, Nov. lO.-Louis Lingg, the
most desperate of the condemned An
archists, and the manufacturer OF the
bombs for the Haymarket riot, blew off
half of his head while in his cell in the
county Jail this morning about 8 o'clock,
by means of Eliminating case. He
died at ESQ p. m. He had the case in
his mouth and lit it with candle which
was burning in his cell. The explosion
was the first warning that the Jail people
had-the guard seeing him with the can.
die in his hand supposing that he was
lighting cigar. From the effects of the
explosion half his head was torn away.
EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY FOR FIELDEN
AND sCHwAB.
Sheriff Matson has just received
telegram from the Governor, stating that
the sentences of Fielden and Schwab
have been commuted to life imprison-
ment. The other four men are to ha:5g
tomorrow.
Immediately after the explosion,
Deputy O'Neill rushed into Lingg's cell,
which was completely enveloped in
smoke. There he found the young An
archist lying on his back, with great
holes in his had, from which blood was
rushing in torrents. BE was at once
carried into the Jail Office and placed on
q table. He was still breathing family,
and while DR.. Gray was examining him
he coughed slightly and blood flowed
forth again from his terrible wounds and
from his mouth and nose.
At 1915 DR.. Gray made further ex-
animation and found that the tissues of
the throat and neck and the front Of the
Jaw had been torn away. He admins.
tered stimulants, but they failed to rouse
the man.
How the dynamite was smuggled into
the cell is not known, but it is generally
believed that there is q traitor among the
death watch who gave him the dynamite
and cap. This is the theory at the Sher-
ifs Office.
L1NaG's FAREWELL ADDRESS.
All day yesterday it was thought that
Lipgg acted differently from usual:
Tuesday night he gave out his farewell
address," which was written for the
Alarm, Parsons old paper. In it he re.
cited at length his grievances and closed
as follows:
"Now, with last earnest farewell to
all my friends and comrades. and with
final wishes for their prosperity, | close,
in view of the certainty that shall never
have chance of seeing you again, my
beloved comrades. With the earnest
and hearty wish for your future success
in life. your comrade hoch die Anarchie.
Louis LINGG."
O'Neal, one of the two guards who
remain on duty before Lingg's cell
throughout the day, declared that Lingg
was the coolest man in Cook County Jail.
He was very pale, but his appetite was
good and he slept we'll.
A S1CKEN1NG SCENE.
The scene in Lingg's cell after the ex.
plosion was ghastly. Teeth, bits of jaw.
bone, shreds of flesh and blood were
scattered all over the narrow compart.
ment. A little trail of blood marked the
way over the stone tagging TO the room
where Lingg was carried. Within fifteen
minutes after the explosion, Fischer,
Parsons and Engel were taken from their
cells and searched in the jailer's private
Office. All their clothing was taken
from them and new suits made by the
Sherif's orders were given them. Sheriff
Matson says Lingg was stripped and
carefully searched yesterday and the day
before.
Att o'clock Lingg's condition was un
changed. He was still conscious, and
presented most terrible sight, with the
lower part of his jaw completely torn
off and his thick auburn hair still matted
with blood. His cheeks were torn out,
and hung down in jagged pieces upon
his neck. His teeth were knocked out
and bis gums torn away, and but small
stump of tongue appeared protruding
from the mangled throat. In the upper
palt of the throat, Immediately under
the lower part of the jaw bone, a terrible
gap had been torn out from inside.
HOW THE TERRIBLE DEED WAS DONE.
Turnkey ONeill discovered the little
agent which had served Lingg to accom-.
plsh his terrible work. 1t was small
Illuminating cap, little over an inch
long. 1t had been filled with illuminate
of mercury, and the small fuse which is
usually attached to these instruments of
death had been touched off by Lingg at
the time the reporter thought he was
lighting cigar. When Lingg commit.
ted the deed he was lying on bis cot
After the affair, when his cell was
searched, another candle was found. At
the top of it, barely concealed by the
ends of the wick, second Eliminating
cap was found; so it is supposed that
Lingg's attempted suicide was committed
with one similarly hidden. The candles
we're furnished by the Jail, so that the
caps must have been put in by Lingg
himself.
WHAT THE ANARCHIST ORGAN SAYS.
At the Office of the Ar5eiter Zcitung to:
day, things were quiet and an air OF
secrecy seemed to prevail. The noon
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